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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8128731 | Method for separating and enriching isotope material, multistage rotor, and apparatus for separating and enriching isotope material A method for separating and enriching isotopes in an efficient and low-cost manner from a condensation-system (liquid or/and solid) material including two or more different isotopes by taking advantage of the sedimentation of atoms through an acceleration field by u... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128732 | Device and method for separating a flowing medium mixture into fractions A device for separating a flowing medium mixture into at least two fractions, comprising rotating means (7) in the form of a rotating assembly of feed channels (6) for rotating the flowing mixture for separating, a feed for the medium mixture (5... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7967893 | Supercritical fluid enrichment of isotopes A system and method for supercritical fluid enrichment of radioactive isotope/s are disclosed. The method involves pressurizing an outer chamber and an inner centrifugal chamber of a stage to supercritical pressure; supplying material including target isotope/s at s... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7901485 | Radial counterflow carbon capture and flue gas scrubbing Vortex gas separation is forced in radial counterflow between counter-rotating coaxial centrifugal impellers. Feed is at the axis of rotation. Axial extraction of nitrogen and water vapor is driven by an axial pump and by back pressure from the tank while radially o... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7019043 | Decomposable resin composition and method for producing the same The invention provides a decomposable resin composition, which is stable at the time of use and which quickly decomposes when discarded. According to the present invention, there is provided a resin composition comprising an agent generating an acid or a base upon r... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6716269 | Centrifuge and cascade for the separation of gases A gas centrifuge operating to separate gases of differing chemical composition and molecular weight by a centrifugal force field. Such a centrifuge is operable to separate methane and carbon dioxide, and to produce torque, and a cascade of such centrifuges is operab... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6363923 | Oxygen enrichment device for the combustion air of internal combustion engines An apparatus for enriching oxygen in the combustion air of internal-combustion engines has a gas centrifuge (1) which is driven by an exhaust gas turbine (2) in the exhaust pipe (4)... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6090183 | Method and apparatus for processing exhaust gas produced during manufacturing of semi-conductor devices A method for processing an exhaust gas produced during manufacturing of semiconductor devices including the steps of introducing a thermally disintegrable or thermally oxidizable exhaust gas produced during manufacturing of semiconductor devices into a pr... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6059861 | Enhanced exclusion filter The present invention relates to an enhanced exclusion filter having a cylindrical stack of substantially identical annular disks and a central rotating element. Each annular disk engages the rotating element by at least one strut which extends inward fro... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6007605 | Integrated exclusion filter and pressurizing means There is provided an integrated exclusion filter and pressurizing device which prevents leakage of unfiltered fluid across the interface area between a rotating filtering apparatus and non-rotating bulkhead. The exclusion filter utilized is of the type wh... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5746789 | Apparatus for separating particulates from a fluid stream A radial inflow centrifugal filter device for separating fine particulates from a fluid flow, including a rotatable plurality of hollow parallel disks mounted in spaced apart relationship and attached via spacers to a tube. The hollow drive tube is in flo... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5554343 | Particle and light and heavy fluid separator A fluid centrifuge device for separating fluids and/or solids comprises a non-rotatable containment vessel (6) and a rotatable shroud (6A) of conical or other form within said vessel (6). The vessel (6) is located between an inlet assembly (2) including a... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5536298 | Method of treating fine particle dust in manufacturing process of semiconductor elements and apparatus therefor In a method of treating a fine particle dust in a manufacturing process of semiconductor elements wherein the fine particle dust is separated and collected from an air which includes the fine particle dust produced from a source of generating the fine par... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5133190 | Method and apparatus for flue gas cleaning by separation and liquefaction of sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide Sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide, emitted in flue gases are separated by gas centrifuge separators, and liquefied by gas mechanical compression and cooling means.... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5024741 | Hybrid isotope separation scheme A method of yielding selectively a desired enrichment in a specific isotope including the steps of inputting into a spinning chamber a gas from which a scavenger, radiating the gas with a wave length or frequency characteristic of the absorption of a part... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5024739 | Novel hybrid isotope separation scheme and apparatus A method of yielding selectively a desired enrichment in a specific isotope including the steps of inputting into a spinning chamber a gas from which the specific isotope is to be isolated, radiating the gas with frequencies characteristic of the absorpti... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4516966 | Centrifuges, centrifuge plants and flow control arrangements therefor In a gas centrifuge assembly comprising a cascade of individual gas centrifuge machines, malfunctioning of any one of the machines as a result of the presence of gaseous impurity within that machine is inhibited from spreading to other machines in the cas... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4373941 | Centrifuge separator Apparatus for separating material from a flowing gas, isotopes for example, has a stationary vessel 12 with an apertured partition means therein forming two zones. The upper zone is a whirling chamber and contains rotational means to form a rotational flo... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4292051 | Apparatus and method for centrifugal fluid separator A method and apparatus for the ce ntrifugal separation of a fluid having heavier and lighter fractions into a first portion having an increased concentration of the heavier fraction and a second portion having an increased concentration of the lighter fra... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4290781 | Methods and apparatus for separating gases with ventilated blades Turbo-separative methods and apparatus for separation of mixtures of gaseous materials having different molecular weights, particularly gaseous isotope mixtures such as mixtures of UF6, in which differential sedimentation velocities of the comp... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4225324 | Method of separating gas mixtures particularly for the enrichment of a gas mixture in a component containing uranium 235 A gas mixture containing a heavy component and a light component, e.g. for the enrichment of the gas mixture in uranium 235 in which the uranium isotopes are provided in the form of uranium hexafluoride, comprises accelerating the gaseous mixture through ... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4193775 | Methods and apparatus for separating gases with ventilated blades Turbo-separative methods and apparatus for separation of mixtures of gaseous materials having different molecular weights, particularly gaseous isotope mixtures such as mixtures of UF6, in which differential sedimentation velocities of the comp... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4167244 | Gas-centrifuge unit and centrifugal process for isotope separation An invention involving a process and apparatus for isotope-separation applications such as uranium-isotope enrichment is disclosed which employs cascades of gas centrifuges. A preferred apparatus relates to an isotope-enrichment unit which includes a firs... | 09/11/1979 |
| 4014981 | Removal of sulfur from stack gases Combustion products, especially those from electric power generating installations burning high sulfur fuels are treated to remove solids and then to separate physically sulfur containing constituents, such as SO2 and/or SO3 from oth... | 03/29/1977 |
| 3998610 | Rotating concentric homogeneous turbulence centrifuge A gas centrifuge and method for the separation of isotopic gaseous mixtures, particularly for the enrichment of uranium by the evaporative, concurrent-flow and countercurrent-flow principles using Taylor circular Couette motion. Gaseous isotopes either al... | 12/21/1976 |
| 3990634 | Method and apparatus for the continuous multiplied enrichment of gaseous isotopes of heavy elements A method and apparatus for the continuous multiplied enrichment of gaseous isotopes of heavy elements by means of gravity-and expanding pressure fields and gas circulation is disclosed. The method is carried out in a pipe or tube with a smooth inner surfa... | 11/09/1976 |